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Even in death, they still talk


What this RP offers:

  • The world of the Forgotten Realms Faerun, augmented and expanded by you!
  • A D&D esque experience for everyone
  • A non-dice based combat system, instead relying on objective and realistic thinking from the combatants


What I want from you:

  • Serious and objective thinking
  • Humour
  • Creativity
  • Good spelling. Not perfect, good.


Handy player skills:

  • Familiarity with AD&D 2nd Ed and Forgotten Realms.
  • A decent amount of neutrality.
  • Perfect spelling
  • Ability to write more than 10 sentences.


The Setting

A wizard of moderate power has posted signs all over the town, recruiting adventures on a quest to 'challenge' a competing magic user, and he is willing to pay a small fortune for any brave and equipped enough to accompany him on his journey. The posters invite applicants to visit the wizard's tower if they wish to join him on this easy quest for a fair reward.

(Nothing out of the order here, but details will certainly be worked out in good order. Since the story will largely depend on what the party does, this could not even be a major plot in it!)

If all of this sounds interesting and you'd like to join, head over to the OOC:
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/78997-forgotten-realms-tales-of-the-dead/ooc

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You've pretty much won my undying love and loyalty already. Forgotten Realms is the light of my life and skjkjakljs 2nd edition and Baldur's Gate and jdsljdklsd. Yes. Okay. I'm ten million percent on board with this.
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You've pretty much won my undying love and loyalty already. Forgotten Realms is the light of my life and skjkjakljs 2nd edition and Baldur's Gate and jdsljdklsd. Yes. Okay. I'm ten million percent on board with this.

Do you have the time for this? I can deal with high turnover, but are you ready to dedicate a few hours a week for a few months to this?
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huh I remember this one...

I'll give it a good thinking-about.
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@El Taco Taco @vietmyke OOC is online with a character sheet for your enjoyment. If you wish to start early or read more, now you can!
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Do you have the time for this? I can deal with high turnover, but are you ready to dedicate a few hours a week for a few months to this?


I'll be a bit busy during finals week, but I've had several games die and I've got loads of free time. I'll be around.
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I'll be a bit busy during finals week, but I've had several games die and I've got loads of free time. I'll be around.


Well, the character sheet is up!
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Le bump.
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Once more into the breach!
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Le bump!
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Is this still open?
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@MacabreFoxVery much so.
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And bump!
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I'm going to try to work up a character tonight.
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Hello there! You might say I'm sort of new to written role-play, because I haven't participated in any in over 10 years. Last time I did, it was on a site specifically designated for LOTR role-play. With that being said, I have absolutely NO experience at all with D&D. Not the system, gameplay, game mechanics, lore, or any of it honestly. The problem here for me, is that your character sheet seems to rely heavily on D&D related material. I've done some research and read a little bit, but the amount of material available is so massive I get lost and never get past naming my character and giving him a class. So, that leads me to posting now. The idea of this RP is one that has drawn me back time and time again, attempting to work up a character and adhere to the character sheet provided since the first day you posted the interest check. My main obstacles with the character sheet are the ones that rely heavily on D&D, like the armor and weapon stats as well as whether things should be in spells rather than abilities or vice-versa. Everything that doesn't rely heavily on D&D is easy as pie. So any advice?

If it helps any, I'm really digging the D&D classes like beastmaster and feral spirit.
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@ShusukeThat's where I can hopefully put your mind to ease. The character sheet is absolutely massive, and since that is the one thing I require to base a lot of the encounters and story on, I require my players do put in the work once, and then only use it as a reference.

But as such, the character sheet should have everything you need to start, without having to read D&D material. The only things I use from FR is the world itself(which I do my best to detail to everyone regardless of knowledge), the magic system(which I also use with liberal explanation) and items(because they're fun, and again, explained if you don't know about them). The rest is up to interpretation. If your character sheet doesn't have an iota of D&D references beyond the basics provided, that's fine!

Armour and weapon stats can be nailed down in the OOC, so this is certainly something I can help you with. You're not alone in this! Ask as many questions as you want, it's what I'm here for. Abilities, skills and spells are three different categories of what your character can do, and break down into some trivial differences:

Skills are things you have to practice with to get better.

Abilities are activatable or sustained things you can do, not necessarily related to your class, race or history. Something you learned to do as a kid, something not necessarily related to your class, a remnant of a different profession, all that kind of fun stuff.

A Drow Elf for example, has the innate ability to cast a Globe of Darkness. It doesn't matter what class/length/height/stats the drow is, but because he is of that race, he gains that ability because all drow do.

Spells are specifically for spellcasters, and function much the same as abilities otherwise.

My advice is, make sure you have the long term time to put into this RP(months and months), and make a character sheet. Post it in the OOC, I'll look at it, indicate what needs fixing, and repeat the process until your sheet adheres to my standards. Looks scary, isn't.

So a character can be a fighter and not have any spells, but have the maximum number of abilities, and vice versa for a spellcaster.

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@DMZ Sounds great! I believe I have more than enough time. I do have a full time job, and unfortunately we don't have banker's hours. I usually work from 7 to 7 (Central Time), but usually have 4 or 5 hours of free time before I go to sleep, I also have around an hour or so in the morning before I go into work. We've been extremely busy this week and haven't been getting home before 8 because we got rained out for two and a half days, so we've been working really long days trying to catch up with our work load. But even working extremely long days, I should have enough time to post at least once daily if the RP is moving that quickly. I've ventured back toward the RP forum type of entertainment because video games are just becoming too brainless.

As for my questions regarding the character sheet, you have cleared up quite a bit of confusion for me with that last post of yours. I asked about spells because I read that rangers can cast spells in D&D, but had to go about it a lot differently than the magic focused classes. Due to that, I just wasn't sure whether I should put certain things in spells or abilities, but I think that's all cleared up now. I think the thing I'm not sure about the most at the moment would be the "racial benefits." Are you wanting us to put down the benefits of the race as listed by D&D, or are you wanting us to just come up with some things here? I'm assuming the latter, or a mix of the two, judging from your post.

And honestly, I don't think the character sheet is that scary or massive. Some of the LOTR and Bleach RP character sheets I've seen are ridiculously massive, and take multiple days to finish unless you sit there all day with them. It was just the confusion of no previous experience with D&D that had me worried. I'll start working on a character shortly and should have a WIP up by the end of the night.
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Racial benefits are only custom if you have a custom race. Otherwise they're all premade and listed in the character sheet.
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Time to bump!
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Anyone else want to join?
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